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(Your City, USA) - You never dream the dream that dreamers are supposed to dream. You never find yourself skipping in fields of brightly colored flowers.
Faces which should be friendly and familiar are foreign and blurred. You're late for class, or you can't remember your lines in the play you find yourself in and performing before hundreds of people.
What's the combination for that lock which keeps you from washing your gym clothes? Maybe you find yourself still married to you ex- and she's still nagging you. Dreams are Hell. Let's call them nighmares, although these lack the melodrama of being chased by demons.
When your waking hours are no better than your dreams you know you're in trouble. You bite your lip and choke back a cry of desperation.
There's always the weekend, you tell yourself. There are always those free moments when you can reach back into your memories and find a safehouse. Some recollection of good times. Friends, family.
A special someone. You lock onto that thought and you overlay your day with it as best you can. It's just a technique, but it works. It gets you by until the clouds break again and you can take the day in as it really is.
You have to wonder if Truant Officers -- or Hand Sanitizers, for that matter -- ever have it that good. Or do they forever reach for any good moment in memory like a drowning man gasps for air?
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Benny & Sid presents Chapter 3 of the serialized graphic novel The Truant OfficerSalem-News.com